Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA (03/27/84)
From: Sam Hahn <Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA> Am I too obtuse to notice, or does the populace not recall that L. Ron Hubbard is the main man behind the dianetics and scientology crock? This where one signs on with the religion for 5 billion years if one can get "cleared", ie brainsucked, the ideal heaven for scientologists. -------
kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) (03/30/84)
* L. Ron Hubbard is in fact the inventor of Dianetics, and the guru of Scientology. He was also, in the 1940's (before inventing dianetics), a science-fiction writer, and a popular one at that. I beleive that he was responsible for the "Ol' Doc Methuselah" series of stories. For those who haven't heard the story, dianetics took the science-fiction community by storm. A.E. van Vogt and John W. Campbell in particular became involved in it. Several writers ahd tehemselved "cleared" by Hubbard (I think that's the terminology), and went on to become "auditors", trying to "clear" all of their friends. I beleive that Campbell's second wife he met thru dianetics. However, most reasonable people became quickly disenchanted with the whole thing ( within about a year). Hubbard then went on to found his little religion; he seems to have done quite well by it, although he spends most of his time on his yacht, out in international waters, to avoid being arrested by the FBI. -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll